Work up

He worked up the public's passions to rage.

In the eyes of Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke the apotheosis of the Celebrity was complete. The people of Asquith were not only willing to attend the house-warming, but had been worked up to the pitch of eagerness.

I shall have worked up an appetite with all this heavy work.

"See how it's working up; we shall have thunder and lightning."

"As evidence of the degraded nature of the prisoner's mind," said Quin. "That's what they call working up a case."